Level 5 Lesson 6 / Word builder 6 / 문(文)

Welcome to another lesson in the Word Builder series. In the Word Builder lessons, we introduce letters and words that work as building blocks of the Korean vocabulary. They are not necessarily all Hanja words based on Chinese characters, but many of them are.

I as just wondering, how important is it to learn hanja? And if it is important how many should i learn???

http://www.facebook.com/people/Garrett-Emslie/30900788 Garrett Emslie

To learn Korean itself, I don’t think it’s important at all. If you’re studying Korean at a university or something, then it would probably be useful.

마이크

Only necessary if you want to read the newspaper, and the odd shopfront might use hanja characters too. But it can be useful for learning the chinese-derived vocabulary more quickly. Most of my Korean friends don’t know Hanja that well, though..

If you’re interested there is a book called 외국인 위한 재미있는 한자 (Learn Hanja the Fun Way) which i find quite effective.

논문들 하고 문서들 문장들 많았어요. Research papers and documents have a lot of sentences.

문장들 문자들 많았어요. Sentences have a lot of letters/characters.

한국문화는 한국문학에 예요. Korean culture is in Korean literature.

eliza

안녕하세요. 이 레슨도 감사합니다. 1. 요즘에는 신문을 별로 안 읽어요. 선생님들, 너무 감사합니다. 건강하세요 ▲_~

Maim

Someone please correct me if I’m wrong, but I think 문자 also bears the significance of “text” in the generic sense (i.e. advertisements you see in the streets, newspapers, shop windows) as well as “text” as in phone text messages.

“문자 보내주세요.”

Francesco Colléter

이 문장은 맛이에요?Is this sentence correct ?

KyungHwa Sun

What did you want to say? Can you explain it in English?

Francesco Colléter

my sentence was : “is this phrase/sentence right/correct?” I tried to write 맛이에요, because i think you say “맛아” for “correct”…